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As Rupert Murdoch moves forward with his plans to put in place a paywall for the online sites of some of his UK newspapers, he may want to look around carefully. Jeff Sonderman points us to the news of a UK newspaper publisher that put in place a paywall of...

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Want to know who’s smiling right now? Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Hastings’s previously beleaguered Netflix is in the midst of a stock resurgence: Its shares have spiked nearly 20 percent in the past two days to $81.72. The stock boost comes two days after Hastings made the mind-boggling announcement that Netflix subscribers watched...

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Microsoft’s (MSFT) initial production run for its Surface tablet will yield more than 3 million units according to estimates by market research firm IDC. The software giant previously announced that its tablet will only be available in Microsoft Store locations in the U.S., and through select online stores, but...

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Over the past six months, Wall Street has gone from thinking that Apple can do no wrong to thinking that there's no way Apple will ever again do anything right. As a result, the stock has collapsed from a high of $702 to a recent low of $390 last week....

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Hon Hai, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics suffered their biggest decline in sales in its history, according to a new Bloomberg report. To give this a larger perspective, a new report out of Beijing yesterday stated that "Foxconn's net loss in 2012 was US $316 million, the biggest...

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If you want to succeed with gaining search traffic through SEO, building links is one of the most important ranking factors that can help you. But go too far, and the search police might crack down on you. How do you avoid a disaster? To help, the folks at DNA created......

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There’s no question that MongoDB is popular among developers. 10gen, the company behind the NoSQL database, has been building out its executive team. Now 10gen is adding a support mechanism that could give users some assurance that they won’t lose their data in the event of a disaster. The MongoDB...

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They say a rising tide can lift all the boats in a harbor. The same logic applies to a sinking tide, and Kayak apparently has no intentions of going down with the ship, so to speak. Enough of the watery metaphors: Plainly put, the Facebook IPO has been something...

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Thanks very much for reading us. We hope you all have a great day. Special bonus points to anyone who can correctly identify this beach. It's in an Atlantic coast beach in the USA... SEE ALSO: We're Headed For A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions Please follow Business...

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Screengrab, Copyrightinformation.org TorrentFreak reports that the Copyright Alert System, which some big Internet service providers were planning to implement Wednesday, is on hold. The system has been delayed due to adverse conditions following Superstorm Sandy, which threw a hugely destructive wrench into the works for many utilities and ISPs. The...

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Amazon Takes A Bath: Pay no attention to the headline of their press release, Amazon had a bad quarter. They've been warning about dipping into the red for a few quarters now and have narrowly avoided it each time. No more. The company lost $274 million on sales of $13.81...

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News you can use (if you are a hedgehog). Coming soon, to a Newsroom episode near you: The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reports today that people are increasingly turning to YouTube for news. And no, not just cuteness news, either. The report illustrates its findings with the example of...

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Windows 8 is doing quite a job of alienating longtime Windows users. No more Start button, but a whole Start screen full of distracting live tiles; a double interface (Desktop and "Modern"); low information density on Modern apps; and the list goes on. For many companies, this isn't a...

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This guy means business. (Photo: Squarespace) Wanna see commitment? Employees of Squarespace, Fog Creek and Peer1 kept their data center up and running throughout the disaster by hauling fuel up seventeen flights of stairs. [TechCrunch] People didn’t go completely, utterly batshit nuts lining up for the iPad Mini. [TechCrunch] The UK court of appeals...

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Two years have passed since the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that lead to the nuclear reactor accident in Fukushima, Japan in March 2011. This past month, Tamotsu Baba, mayor of Namie, a town only a few miles north of the nuclear plant, invited Google to explore the city shaken...

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Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was the site of one of history's worst nuclear accidents, when an experiment destroyed reactor number 4 and exposed hundreds of people to high levels of radiation. The site of the April 26, 1986 disaster is still uninhabitable, but remains a popular location for...

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Theoretically, online services shouldn't ever get so mobbed by customers that they can't deliver a game or service, because it should be ridiculously easy to bring on additional capacity to meet demand. And yet here in the real world, exactly these sorts of failures seem to crop up with dismaying...

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Apple continues to run higher. It's over $500 now. Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »See Also:Inside The Apple Protest In San FranciscoGoogle's Foray Into Hardware Will Be A Total Disaster — Here's WhyHackers Have Been Robbing iTunes Customers Since 2010...

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Neil Armstrong's recent passing has reminded lots of folks about the first manned mission to the moon. The whole idea that "we could put a man on the moon" seemed incredible in the 1960's, and the feat is still remarkably difficult -- even if kids today can't fully appreciate the...

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TEPCO, the utility in charge of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, has admitted that it could have taken action to prevent last year's catastrophic triple meltdown. In a document laying out the groundwork for reform of its policies, TEPCO detailed the mis-management that led to the disaster....

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The golden era of zeppelins may long since be over, but airships are once again plying the skies. Today, CNET got a ride aboard the Eureka, and a priceless view of the best of San Francisco. [Read more]...

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We've talked a bunch of times about the (somewhat ridiculous) process by which the public gets a shot, once every three years, to beg the US Copyright Office to throw the public a bone and grant "exemptions" to the ridiculous DMCA anti-circumvention clause. This process is completely backwards. The anti-circumvention...

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A new service from Virgin America empowers you to use the in-flight entertainment system to send a drink to someone you find attractive and to text them, even. A recipe for disaster, surely. [Read more]...

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The bad news for memory makers: prices for DRAM (dynamic random access memory) were in a free-fall in Q2 as gut-wrenching as the one flash companies like Sandisk (SNDK) and Intel (INTC) reported in earnings the past two weeks. (Flash prices, however, are clearly rising.) The good news for PC...

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Microsoft doesn’t like it if you use long passwords in Hotmail. In fact, the software giant won’t let you use a really long one anymore, and recently started prompting users to only enter the first 16 characters of their password. As you can see in the screenshot above, courtesy of...